Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-07

-ht' y. a 5H.OF o. j j.t5G5t IS n tlG
city, Just returned from 81 extensive trip
through the Panhandle. Asked what he
thought OF that region, lie said to q Ga
zETTE reporter:
"What strikes me most about i. is the
wonderful fertility OF the soil Of the
SaEed Plain. There are whole counties
- the Pain where the Ia1d is Us 1ich Is
can be, Wit 10 poor land at ell as far a.
could gee L Is deep loan, vary
Ing from Clli0late 70 black The
development q w2fer Is the great
problem il hat country. With water
for irrigation watn the rains ere insult
cient, that country will prove the most
productive in the world, as | mos. truly
believe. ] . Will gov the richest what IN
the world, from thirty to forty bushels
/ Per acre; In fact VIII Grow most SnYthiUg
IL abundance. And the development CT
water does not seem to me q hard prob
lem. have heard of no failure 10 get il
ivy digging, aid artesisn wells Will no
doubt De entirely successful. The char
acter OF the country Is very favorable 10
such wells, 80 much 50 that | believe
| there will oe no failures when That mode
Of getting water is attempted. A good
srtesian well en- that ieCund soil would
soon enrich its owner.
"You think the Panhandle IS 9 great
grape country
81 think i. the greatest grapa couatry
in tie world, not excepting California. II
| is s wonderful country n anything that
grows on vines, including melons, puup-
| kins, end I'll such things. Tne native
| grapes Of the Panhandle ere excellent in
, themselves, and may be greatly improved
| by cultivation, but probably their
chief value consists in this-tnat
the finest Earopeen grapes msy be graftet
uEen them and grown with perfect sue
,Foess. The European grapes do no. sue
coed anywhere in the L lifted States eas
OF the Rocky mountain ranges, owing K
2 miserable little pest known as tn;
plyiioXera, which feeds upon their root.
and kills the vine, These creatures dC
not attack the American vine, or if thel
DO tasy do not hurt H. Therefore, if yol
graft the European grape ca the hard,
phylioXerS- resisting sad dr0utl-reeisljDs
grapes OF the Panhandle you Will bat il
for the climate there IS sdmirabi,
suited 10 nearly al the bes
European grapes hsya put some in
teuigent men in the Panhandle to worE
on this idea, anj ia 8 few years you vii
have your markets here in Fort Wort
supplied from that country with as t1
Muscals, MI>C2Jels, /lntandels an
Ghasselas as you now get irOm California
N say this with absolute certainty, becaus
l cultivate grapes myself and speak wit
knowledge. The happiest and riches
countries n the world are those that pro
Guce the most biscuits ana wiae. Il Is
the combination Of wheat and wine tina
has M &c France for centuries the marvg
OF the world for the thrift, happiness an
high civilization OF her people TIE sam
combination Will 60 the same thin
Tor the Panhandle. II has alresdy don
+ SO in California. Moreover, wine-prc
ducing and s drinking people ar
never . drunken people, for the reason
suppose, that if you sccustom man t
good wine, he becomes too much Of 6 GEL
tleman to get drunk"
"What do you think of Fort Wort
Mr.. Taylor"
Gust this That you are wastin
your energies on distant places whic
; ought to be applied nearer home, and tia
have paid out and are now paI
2 LIZ OuL nJuAlI wv yJCHI SUP
pose, in subsidies to railroad
that run to St. Louis, Kansas City an
d Chicago. You think that salvation en
greatness cannot come from anywhel
else in this world except TO those places
= therefore sn your energies are straine
in getting more lines into those place
1t is big folly. These roads which &c
spend so much money to promote bril-
{ to you no advantages which they do n
> also bring to other places all about 70
q For instance, have been thinking
h addipg an agricultural implement wa,
d house to my land business IN Abilene, 81
find that ! can have these things shipp'
r. to me from St. Louis and k3nsss CIT
where they are made, in carloads at pr
cisely the same cost which your merCdGI
pay on them here. so it is not
.EIny advantage to buy these things in Ft
sFAW ortiz By buying 81 the mapUI3cturi
= points | save the local fIeights from ne
B TO Abilene, amounting 10 abOGt Sl20
10 car, hest ies the cost u one or two han
b. lings; 50 that I can retail these things
Abilene at the same figures your mt
chsnts retail them here. No DOUBT t
Z 81 came FHle7 epples 20 ali other classes
goods which come from those cities.
you see any peCuilar advantages LOT r.
rs. Worth in that sort OF business, conf
u: from your many lines of competing rs
nd roads, on which you have shoTered
~ much money? There IS hot aud cam
be any greatness for Fort Worth in su
business as that, You can not be ST.
nv thing but g respectable retail ostablis
ia, ment under such sn order of things. /
IN claim, therefore, that Fort Worth is
- metropolis or commercial centre, is pc
E pgcock. You are nothing bnt rel
, on shop and never can be anything else
nd long as this thing lasts"
f foT "But now are you going to remedy il
re- ''There is but one way. You win hi
TO do like Kansas City, ST, Louis 6
= Chicago. You will have to msnlfact
those things which they now sell
you and all the country. When J
c. manufacture those things, those v